On 25/09/08 at 09:37 +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote: > [If anyone reads this as advocating against Samuel, then please blame my > engrish. It is not in any way intended to be read like that] > On 2008-09-23, Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is my declaration of intent to become a Debian Maintainer. > > > > I have read the Social Contract, DFSG and DMUP, and agree with all of > > them. > > > > I currently only maintain the speakup package, but also help maintaining > > the brltty, gnumach, hurd and glibc packages, and I have reported > > and provided patches for quite a few debian bugs, notably the > > accessibility support in the Debian Installer. I intend to mostly help > > on accessibility and Hurd packages, but also possibly the keyboard > > layouts and kernel maintenance. > > Not that I have any grounds to question Samuel's skills - I > have seen his name on lists and in bug reports and only remember > something positive. > > But as debian maintainer is "being able to upload (some of) own packages", I > wonder a bit if it is the right thing to place Samuel there. > - I would be surprised if glibc was a package being uploaded by non-DDs > - ports is more about sending patches and occasionally doing porter > NMUs > > /Sune > - more wondering about d-m in general than wondering about Samuel.
Indeed. The real question is: Samuel, why aren't you on https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php yet? ;) I mostly see DM as a way to make the long NM process more bearable. When asked to advocate for NM or DM, I tend to ask myself: - for DM: do I fully trust him to upload correct packages himself? - for NM: + Do I think that he will be a great DD if he becomes one in 6 months? + Do I think that he has been around long enough so that going through NM now won't be too painful for his AM? As a result, it already happened that I advocated someone for NM, that I wouldn't have advocated at the same time for DM, because I felt that he still had stuff to learn. But it would really be strange to advocate someone for DM, but not advocate him for NM (if he wants to become a DD). I think that some people wrongly feel that they are not ready for NM, while they are (I'm thinking of Chris Lamb for example, who is now a DD). I'm not sure where that comes from. Maybe we should try to send the signal that if people often think you are a DD, but you haven't started NM yet, maybe there's a problem :-) -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
